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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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